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Amazon introduces AI shopping experts, an audio feature that summarizes product details, customer reviews, and more, on select products for some US customers (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
2025-05-22 03:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nansen: the 220 winners of Trump's May 22 dinner contest spent $394M total on the $TRUMP token, with the top seven spending $10M+ each and a third $1M+ each (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
2025-05-22 03:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Digital physical therapy provider Hinge Health raised $437M in its US IPO, after the company and its backers sold 13.7M shares at $32 each, the top of its range (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
2025-05-22 02:23 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google DeepMind says Gemini Diffusion, an experimental text diffusion model demoed at Google I/O and available by waitlist, generates 1,000-2,000 tokens/second (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
2025-05-22 01:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI updates its Responses API for building agentic applications to include remote MCP server support, image generation and Code Interpreter tools, and more (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
2025-05-22 01:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A US district judge rules Google and Character.AI must face a Florida woman's lawsuit claiming Character.AI's chatbots caused her 14-year-old son's suicide (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
2025-05-21 23:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bitcoin reached a new all-time high, surpassing $110,000 and breaking its January record, after slumping to $74,000 in April (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
2025-05-22 00:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon plans to sell Nike products directly for the first time since 2019, when Nike stopped selling through Amazon due to lingering counterfeit issues (The Information)
2025-05-21 22:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Signal says it will block by default screenshots of its Windows 11 desktop app due to the privacy risks of Microsoft's Recall; users can enable them in settings (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
2025-05-22 00:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AT&T agrees to acquire Lumen's consumer fiber business for $5.75B, in an all-cash deal expected to close in H1 2026; LUMN jumps 13%+ after hours (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
2025-05-21 21:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Snowflake reports Q1 product revenue up 26% YoY to $996.8M, vs. $966M est., and forecasts Q2 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 6%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
2025-05-21 22:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.17B, in line with expectations, Enterprise revenue up 6% YoY to $704.7M, and raises its FY 2026 forecast above estimates (Juby Babu/Reuters)
2025-05-21 22:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CoreWeave announces a $2B debt offering, representing a $500M increase from its initial announcement, and says it was five times oversubscribed; CRWV jumps 19% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
2025-05-21 21:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sen. Wyden says AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile failed to create systems for notifying about surveillance on Senate-issued devices, despite a requirement to do so (Alfred Ng/Politico)
2025-05-21 19:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
World Network raised $135M in a token sale to a16z and Bain Capital Crypto "to meet increasing demand for Orb-verified World IDs"; WLD jumped 14% on the news (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)
2025-05-21 19:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Shopify launches new AI tools, including one for setting up storefronts and another for creating elements like banners, and upgrades its AI assistant Sidekick (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
2025-05-21 20:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Epic v. Apple: Spotify says its recent update supporting web payments has resulted in "a significant increase in iOS users upgrading to a Premium subscription" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-05-21 20:22 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal so is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; separately, OpenAI's Start-up Fund invested in io last year (New York Times)
2025-05-21 18:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In a video and letter signed "Sam & Jony", Altman and Ive announce io, founded last year by Ive, Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan to create new products (OpenAI)
2025-05-21 18:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Sam Altman and LoveFrom have been working for two years on a new device to move consumers beyond screens, including headphones and devices with cameras (Wall Street Journal)
2025-05-21 18:21 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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